Peters



W. C. BEATTIE. Pickle-Caster.

No. 225,786. Patented Mar. 23, 1880.

WITNESSES 1 INVENTOR fjwf'o m U/ (L ATTORNEYS.

N. PETERS, PHOTO-UTHDGMPHER. WASNINGTON. D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM G. BEATTIE, OF TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOE TO REED & BARTON, OF SAME PLACE.

P k PlCKLE-CASTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 225,786, dated March 23, 1880.

Application filed February 11, 1880.

To all whomit may concern: to which it may be lifted, a spring, 6, (shown Be it known that I, WM. 0. BEATTIE, of in detail in Fig. 2,) is arrangedin one or both Taunton, in the county of Bristol and State of the bearings a of the rock-shaft, so as to of Massachusetts, have invented a new and preserve a constant tension or friction of suf- Improved Pickle-Caster; and I do hereby deficient strength to maintain the cover in said clare that the following is afull, clear, and exelevated position. v act description of the same, reference being In order to adapt the given throw of the had to the accompanying drawings, forming crank of the shaft D to different lengths of part of this specification, in which pickle-jar and still preserve the vertically- 1o Figurelis a side elevation, with the elevated pendent position of the crank when the cover position of the cover shown in dotted lines. is on the jar, the rod d is extended through Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the tension-spring the cover E with a loose sliding connection, at the joint or hearing of the crank-shaft. and has a ball nut or head, f, at its lower end, My invention relates to an improvement in which, when the crank rises, strikes against 1 pickle-casters, butter-dishes, jewel-cases, the cover and lifts the same. If the jar be sugar dishes, and other analogous covered taller, the crank, in being restored to its penddishes, which improvement is designed to raise ent position, forces the rod through the cover, the cover of said articles and maintain the so that the ball or head passes down into the same in an elevated position. hollow of the cover.

20 The invention consists, first, in combining I do not confine myself to this exact conthe cover of the vessel with ahorizontal crankstruction for reaching this result, as the same shaft jonrnaled in bearings in the side standresult may be attained by a chain, an elongated ards or handle, and having knobs or thumbeye or link, or other loose connection. D pieces forturning the same, and a suspending I am aware that it is not broadly new to 25 connection with the cover, whereby a rotation provide the cover with devices for raising and of the crankshaft is made to lift the cover; maintaining it in elevated position over the secondly, in arranging about the bearings of vessel, and I therefore do not claim this, the horizontal shaft a spring, which, by a conbroadly; but,

stant friction or tension, maintains the crank- Having thus described my invention, what 0 shaft in any of its positions; thirdly, in con- I claim as new is 8o necting the cover of the vessel with the crank- 1. In a covered dish, the combination, with shaft by a sliding rod or its equivalent, as the cover and side standards rising above the hereinafter described, so as to adapt the desame, of a horizontal crankshaft journaled in vices to the different lengths of pickle-jars, as said side standards and having a loose con- 3 5 hereinafter described. nection with the cover, substantially as and t In the drawings, A represents the glass for the purpose described. pickle-jar; B, the ornamental metal stand, 2. The combination, with thecover, the side 1 from which there rise two standards, 0 G, standards having bearings, and the horizontal which connect above the pickle-jar to form a crank-shaft loosely connected with the cover,

40 handle. In bearings 00 a in the upper portion of a spring arranged in one or both of said of these side standards is journaleda horizonbearings and adapted to maintain the cover tal crank-shaft, D, which, outside of its bearin elevated position, as described. ings, is provided with knobs or thumb-pieces 3. The combination, with the horizontal b b, by which the shaft is turned. The bent crank-shaft D and the cover E, of a loose rod,

5 or cranked portion 0 of this shaft D is con- (1, sliding through the cover and having a 5 nected, by a loose rod, d, with the cover E of headnut or ball on its lower end, as described.

the pickle-jar, so that when the said shaft is WILLIAM CHALLEN BEATTIE. 1 turned the cover is lifted from the jar, as Witnesses: shown in dotted lines. THEO. P. HALE,

" 50 In order to sustain the coverin any position F. E. FIsKE. 

